SI: College Coaching Hot Seat Watch (Ferentz and Kiffin listed on top of list)

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Group A: Quiznos Toasters

• Kirk Ferentz, Iowa: In the time it takes to read this blurb, Ferentz will have made approximately $5,326.37 (not accurate). Iowa needs to win and soon. If the Hawkeyes lose to another MAC team or two, and if they finish below .500 in conference play in what appears to be a less-than-stellar Big Ten, it might finally make fiscal sense to offer up the longtime coach to AIRBHG. Iowa went 4-8 in 2012 and lost its final six games down the stretch.

• Ron English, Eastern Michigan: Eastern Michigan isn’t the easiest place to coach in the world, but it’s also certainly not the most difficult. Taking away English’s 6-6 campaign in 2011, he’s won just four games over three years. English has the intensity required for the job, and he has a vision for what he wants the program to be. But if the Eagles win two games for the third time in four seasons (2-10 in 2010 and ’12), he likely won’t be around to see that vision through.

• Lane Kiffin, USC: Say he’s not on the hot seat all you want, Pat Haden, but the Trojans aren’t trying to establish tradition in the Sun Bowl. With the dreaded ‘hype’ tag finally removed from Kiffin and USC, the team can adopt a ‘chip on our shoulders’ trope — and it might actually be primed for a bounce-back year. The Trojans don’t have to play Washington or Oregon in the regular season, a huge break considering the Ducks hung 62 points on USC in 2012. Still, the Pac-12 is a lot more competitive than it used to be. If Kiffin’s team starts slowly, or if it loses to a team that it shouldn’t, things could get ugly in the Coliseum quickly.

http://college-football.si.com/2013/08/05/coaching-hot-seat-watch/

Go Gophers!!
 


husker70 said:
When it comes to the hot seat, The Coaching Hot Seat has some interesting coaches Kirk Ferentz is number 4, Bobby Hauk of UNLV is 5, and Kevin Wilson of Indiana is 6.
http://http://www.coacheshotseat.com/

And here is the expanded ranking to include Beckman at Illinois
http://http://www.coacheshotseat.com/CoachesHotSeatRanking.htm
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I don't know why Wilson would be on the hot seat. His team has improved and increased it's win total from his first to second season.
 

Agree.

The guy loses all credibility when he lists Kevin Wilson on the hot seat. Wilson has done a solid job so far.

Beckman is another story. He's in way over his head. He's so inept he'll get canned after his 2nd season (this December).
 

Ferentz's performance may warrant dismissal, but does anyone really see Iowa eating 8 figures in a buyout?
 


dpodoll68 said:
Ferentz's performance may warrant dismissal, but does anyone really see Iowa eating 8 figures in a buyout?
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Sure, Iowa will sell Kinnick Stadium to Zygi Wilf and Zygi can cheat Iowa instead of Minnesota.
 

http://hawkcentral.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/ferentzcontract.pdf

I didn't do the math myself, but as I understand it, his contract with all of the supplemental/longevity bonuses adds up to $39+ MM over 10 years. The upcoming season is year 4 of that deal. If he gets fired without cause, his buyout clause states that he gets 75% of the remaining cumulative amount of the contract, paid in monthly installments, through the end of the contract period. In other words, if he gets fired after this season, he has 6 years remaining * approx. $3.9 MM = $23.4 MM * .75 = 17.5 MM. In other words, Iowa would be paying him $17.5 MM, spread out over monthly installments for 6 years, while they're paying his successor and staff what would likely be a salary upwards of $2 MM a year. And, to boot, there is no offset if and when he gets a new job. They owe him the full amount regardless of his employment status. Does anyone see them doing that?
 


station19 said:
Did the GM of the Yankees come up with that contract for Iowa?
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The other issue is that he gets close to a $400K automatic raise each and every year. Even so, it is hard to image Iowa getting rid of him anytime soon. Two more years like the last one and then maybe.
 



How can Ferentz be on the hot seat? If he remains, he makes a ton of money. If they fire him, he makes a ton of money.
 


dpodoll68 said:
I didn't do the math myself, but as I understand it, his contract with all of the supplemental/longevity bonuses adds up to $39+ MM over 10 years. The upcoming season is year 4 of that deal. If he gets fired without cause, his buyout clause states that he gets 75% of the remaining cumulative amount of the contract, paid in monthly installments, through the end of the contract period. In other words, if he gets fired after this season, he has 6 years remaining * approx. $3.9 MM = $23.4 MM * .75 = 17.5 MM. In other words, Iowa would be paying him $17.5 MM, spread out over monthly installments for 6 years, while they're paying his successor and staff what would likely be a salary upwards of $2 MM a year. And, to boot, there is no offset if and when he gets a new job. They owe him the full amount regardless of his employment status. Does anyone see them doing that?
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Your facts & numbers are a bit off, but the difference compared to reality isn't big in total dollars. I think what we've got here is that the 75% is applied to guaranteed base + supplemental. Beginning after this year (defined as ending January 2014), base plus supplemental per year is $3.55MM the rest of the way (absent any discretionary increases in base).

$3.55MM x 6 years x .75 = approximately $16MM.

If they truly believe he is awful/there is no hope for him and everyone is picketing, demanding that he's gone it could happen.. but, yeah.. that's a lot of dough.
 

Haha! Iowa literally can't afford to let Ferentz go before that contract runs out! :clap:
 




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